Final Fantasy XIV’s healer problem and how it’s kind of unsolvable

[GrimGale]

Not necessarily. If that Adlo was the difference between people dying or not, then it’s a fair trade off. At the end of the day, you’re always aiming to clear the content, not pull the best numbers and wipe 20+ times just to get one clear. Could healing be more optimised? For sure, but it isn’t always necessary especially when you’re still getting used to the encounter.



That’s way too specific to get any used. It’d be just another case of Stormblood Lilies, and you know how that turned out. As Healers, they can’t give us anything complex like a “combo rotation” since we’d need to interrupt it if all resources are exhausted and you’d need to cast a GCD heal.

That said, a “flowing rotation” is possible. It could be something as simple as a 20 second proc that says, “using a Healing Aetherflow ability increases the potency of the next Ruin/Broil by x potency. Using this proc grants another proc that lets you use Energy Drain at no cost”.

So in order to maximize DPS I have to waste a healing aetherflow, overhealing the tank to get a stronger regular spammable spell. No, that would not work. Healing is not needed constantly in this game, while DPS is always useful. You can overheal, you can't overdps.

On the other hand, turning dps into healing could be more appropriate.

[AdamFyi]

So in order to maximize DPS I have to waste a healing aetherflow, overhealing the tank to get a stronger regular spammable spell. No, that would not work. Healing is not needed constantly in this game, while DPS is always useful. You can overheal, you can't overdps.

You misunderstood. It’d be like how Afflatus Misery refunds a portion of the damage you would have dealt with those GCDs using Afflatus spells, though I prolly didn’t illustrate it better so I apologise for the misunderstanding. The potency increase would’ve been close to refunding Energy Drain’s potency but not entirely (~100 potency refund) and would work exactly like how Ruin IV works with just the next Ruin/Broil spell used. Maybe the last bit with the free proc on Energy Drain was tad bit too much lol.